Kindle for the Web

Posted by
Sam Churchill
on
September 28th, 2010

Amazon’s Kindle took another step towards e-book platform ubiquity this morning with the launch of Kindle for the Web a browser-based version of the popular e-reader, notes Digital Daily. The service extends Kindle’s “Read the first chapter free” offer to the Web itself, providing book previews that can be read in-browser and shared via embed codes or services like Facebook and Twitter.

Embed a book sample in your personal blog or website and earn referral fees on sales.

Authors and their fans, can earn referral fees from Amazon when customers complete book purchases using the links on their Web sites. But it’s an evolution of the Kindle platform, particularly if Kindle for The Web moves from a discovery tool to full-text e-reader.

Amazon says Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 700,000 books, including New Releases and 108 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 575,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 80 New York Times Bestsellers.